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...Aswan High Uam in Egypt. The President felt that the American contribution in the form of funds accumulated in Egypt could best be used to preserve the lesser temples in the U.A.R. and Sudan and help finance archaeological exploration in the Nubian area of Egypt, also threatened once the dam is completed...
...Adjei spoke. President Kwame Nkrumah was courting U.S. aid money to finance a pet project that should keep Ghana under the yoke of colonialism for years to come: a $196 million dam and power plant to be built on the Volta River. (According to an Administration official. President Kennedy intends to send a mission to Accra "to rivet some things down" before approving the project.) Meanwhile, a 19-man Ghana delegation was heading for Russia-where Nkrumah himself had just paid a call-to wrap up economic and cultural agreements. Ghana was also preparing to invite a Soviet military mission...
...Turned down, in the House Appropriations Committee, a $4,000,000 request by President Kennedy to help jack up the entire Temple of Abu Simbel 203 feet above the rising waters of the Nile's Aswan High Dam in Egypt...
...Crack in the Dam." No sooner was the date set than Hoffa flew to Chicago to help Pal Joey. At a mass meeting of drivers, he blasted Abata, warned that "he wants to take away your bargaining power." He also pulled a typical Hoffa trick. Just as onetime Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis had been brought into court four years ago to impress eight Negro jurors when Hoffa was on trial for bribery, the Teamsters' boss enlisted Track Star Jesse Owens to impress Local 777's large Negro membership. Said Owens: "The situation of some Negro cab drivers...
...into voting booths set up in 23 garages, the drivers and mechanics turned out Joey and the Teamsters by a vote of 2.122 to 1,760. Abata, whose Democratic Union Organizing Committee will now represent Chicago cabbies, was elated. "This is a trend," he said, "a crack in the dam...